Above, a close-up of the statue in Rome's Campo de Fiori, memorializing the man named at birth Filipo Bruno, who grew up to become a Dominican friar. But Brother Giordano didn't stop there, seeming to have lived a life animated by a spirit - a soul, if you will - not satisfied with the Pauline church's circumscriptions of God, the Universe . . . and shit.
Described in a Wikipedia article as also a "philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer", he was burned at the stake in the Campo de Fiori on February 17, 1600, having been found guilty by the Roman Inquisition of several heresies threatening to the presumptive ascendancy of the church's doctrines. Upon being sentenced to death, Bruno is reported to have made a threatening gesture towards his judges, and to have replied: "Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it".
A man after my own heart, spirit and mind.
A man after my own heart, spirit and mind.
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